SAXON Singer: 'We're Not Really Changing, We're Just Trying To Get Better'

September 11, 2008

Mick Burgess of Metal Express Radio recently conducted an interview with SAXON frontman Biff Byford. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

Metal Express Radio: Certainly from SAXON's point of view you seem to be going through something of a renaissance. Your last album, "The Inner Sanctum", was universally hailed as your best in years. What is it that reinvigorated you as a band?

Byford: "Well, we're working on it. It's good as there's a lot of people behind us, a lot of magazines and media so it helps. We're working really hard and we have been doing since our 'Lionheart' album was released. I think our latest, 'The Inner Sanctum' is a great album and we'll be hard pushed to beat that one. That album got fantastic reviews; I don't think there's a bad song or a filler on that album. I think it came out just at the right time."

Metal Express Radio: "The Inner Sanctum" sounds like an album that YOU wanted to do rather than an album a record label wanted you to make?

Byford: "We're doing what we like to do. We love our music and we're not really experimenting anymore. We know what we are good at writing and I know what I'm good at singing and I know what lyrics I like to write and people seem to like that. We're not really changing; we're just trying to get better."

Metal Express Radio: Recently METALLICA paid tribute to you by covering "Princess of the Night" and "Motorcycle Man" at the Rock Am Ring. That's a pretty impressive endorsement.

Byford: "Yes, it is. They didn't have to do that, it was very nice of them. We were backstage when they did that and it was nice to hear. I might give them a job you know!! We hadn't spoken to them in nearly 28 years as we hadn't been on the same festivals as them. They always say that we were a massive influence on them when they first started. It was nice getting to see them after so long and we talked about old times."

Read the entire interview from Metal Express Radio.

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